Improvement in fences



UNITED STATES PATENT Erica..

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,051 dated January 16, 1866.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT JACKSON, of Clifton Springs, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new alld Improved Portable Felice; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled ill the art to make and ilse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciticatioll, iu which- Figure l, Sheet No. l, is a side view of my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same; Figs. 3 alld 4, Sheet No. 2, a side view of a modification of the same; Fig. 5, a plan or top View ot Fig. 3; Fig. 6, a detached plan or top view of one of the bars of a pawl pertaining to the same.

Similar letters of reference ilidicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved portable fence, or such as may be readily put up alld taken down, and when put up be firmly secured ill position, and any paliel of the fence readily removed or made to serve as hars in order to admit of a team passing` through.

This invention is composed of what may be termed panels A and bars or slats B. The panels are composed of three or liiore horizontal bars, a, through which vertical rods or sticks b are driven, two near e-.ich end. These rods or sticks, which may be of metal or wood, serve to hold the bars or slats B, the ends of which rest on the bars a alld pass between the rods or sticks b, the whole forming a worm or zigzag felice, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, the bars or slats B heilig firmly claliiped by adl'usting the panels A so that the rods or sticks b will claliip or bilid upon the ends ofthe boards or shits, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, holding the same in position.

The panels A may be secured in position by driving stakes C through the lower har a of the panels into the groniid, as shown clearly in Fig. l.

From the above description it will be seen that by simply adjusting the panels A (any one of them) so that the bars or slats B will be loose between the rods or sticks b the bars or slats thus loosened may be readily removed and made to serve as bars or a gaie.

The rods or sticks b, if made of wood, I design to have of square form alid driven through round holes in the bars a. This will admit of moisture passing through the holes in a and allow a circulation of air tllrough the holes, so as to prevent the rotting or decaying of the wood, which would be the case were the rods or sticks made to tit snugly or tightly in the bars ct.

The invention is not confined to what is generally termed a worm fence, for it lnay be erected or put up in straight form in cases where desirable. To accomplish this I have three holes, bi, made in each end of the bars tof the panels A, two of them beiligili line with each other transversely with the bars. (See Fig. 6.) In putting up the straight fence I drive the rods or sticks Z1 through the holes bt, which are in a lille transversely with the bars a, alid place the pawls ill a straight lille, titting the ends of the slats B between the rods or sticks, as shown clearly in Fig. 5. In putting up the worm felice one rod or stick is driven through one of the inner holes, bit, and the other through the outer one, causing said rods or sticks to have an oblique position relatively with the panels A and to bind against the ends of the slats B, as shown in Fig. 2.

This invention also admits of the felice beillg erected on a mound or ledge of earth, D, as showli ili Fic. et. In this case two slats, B, would be sufficient. to insert between the pawls.

This forms a very simple, cheap, and dura` ble felice. The panels A, by having the rods or sticks pass through them, are very strong, and admit of the bars or slats B being Well clalnped,

I do not claim, broadly, the clamping ofthe ends of the bars or slats between vertical slats or panels, for that has been previously dolle, but the parts arranged in all entirely different manner from lily invention; but

I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The panels A, constructed of horizontal parallel bars a, with rods or sticks b passing' vertically through or otherwise attached to them, in combination with the bars or slats B, all being arranged, as shown, to admit of the ends of the bars or slats heilig fitted between the rods or sticks b, substantially as set forth.

The above specication of my invention signed by me this 2S day of September, 1865.

ALBERT JACKSON.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, C. L. ToPLlEE. 

